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Distribution of the phosphoenolpyruvate:glucose phosphotransferase system in fermentative bacteria.

Journal of bacteriology ·Vol. 139 ·No. 1 ·1979-07-00 ·Pages 93-7

Romano AH, Trifone JD, Brustolon M

Abstract

A number of selected fermentative bacteria were surveyed for the presence of the phosphoenolpyruvate:glucose phosphotransferase system, with particular attention to those organisms which ferment glucose by pathways other than the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway. The phosphoenolpyruvate:glusoe phosphotransferase system was found in all homofermentative lactic acid bacteria tested that ferment glucose via the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway, but in none of a group of heterofermentative species of Lactobacillus or Leuconostoc, which ferment glucose via the phosphoketolase pathway. A phosphoenolpyruvate:glucose phosphotransferase system was also absent in Zymomonas mobilis, which ferments glucose via an anaerobic Entner-Doudoroff pathway. It thus appears that the phosphotransferase mode of glucose transport is limited to bacteria with the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas mode of glucose fermentation.

MeSH Terms
Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism Bacteria/enzymology Deoxyglucose/metabolism Glucose/metabolism Lactobacillus/enzymology Leuconostoc/metabolism Multienzyme Complexes/metabolism Pediococcus/metabolism Phosphoenolpyruvate Phosphotransferases/metabolism Streptococcaceae/enzymology Streptococcus/enzymology
Chemicals
Multienzyme Complexes Phosphoenolpyruvate Adenosine Triphosphate Deoxyglucose Phosphotransferases Glucose
Authors & Affiliations
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Romano A H
Trifone J D
Brustolon M
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Article Info
Journal
Journal of bacteriology
Abbr.
J Bacteriol
ISSN
0021-9193
DOI
10.1128/jb.139.1.93-97.1979
Published
1979-07-00
Pages
93-7
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
2985120R
PMCID
PMC216831
Subset
IM
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